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Alarm Grades
The monitor annunciates both audible and visual alarms to alert
you to significant changes in the patient’s condition and to mal-
functions of the equipment that may affect the accuracy of mea-
surements.
All alarms fall under one of three alarm grades:
! Life-threatening.
! Serious.
! Advisory.
If the monitor detects more than one alarm at a time, it annunci-
ates the alarm with the alarm highest priority.
Life-Threatening Alarms
A life-threatening has the highest alarm priority. The monitor
triggers life-threatening alarms for asystole, ventricular fibrilla-
tion, ventricular tachycardia, and bradycardia (bradycardia in
neonatal mode only).
A life-threatening alarm has the following characteristics:
! The HR parameter box blinks and appears red.
! The monitor emits a continuous warble tone.
! The monitor displays the alarm cause in both the parameter
box and the message area.
! The alarm continues until you press the Alarm Silence fixed
key, the
All Alarms OFF fixed key, or turn that parameter’s
alarm off (see the section Alarm Settings, below).
WARN IN G: If HR alarms and arrhythmia detection are
turned off, the monitor does not alarm for asystole and
ventricular fibrillation.
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